Verizon is kicking its major network routes up to 100Gbps early next year.
It’s looking at upgrading it’s backbone after successful trails last year over a short piece of network (short being 300+ miles) proved it feasible. They’re calling it Internet2. Catchy!
It won’t affect your home connection in most ways, but it will alleviate congestion along routes served, lowering overall costs.
Verizon moving to 100Gbps network in ‘09 [Network World]
That is about the least redundant network I’ve seen in a long while. The internet is built for redundancy. If one pipe goes down then you don’t notice any difference as there is enough other pipes to fill the gap.
Lets say the pipe between Phoenix and San Diego goes down; instead of being one hop away its 15. Unless that network map is way too basic and not mentioning all of the backup pipes it has huge holes that will cause major disruptions in service.
Instead of making an internet 2, they should use these same pipes to provide more bandwidth to the standard internet. They will not do that due to the fact they are making this “new” internet so they can have more control over it.